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lixiviate

verb /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/

  1. To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.

    […]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry lixiviate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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